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Up three percent from the year before, 16.2 percent of Utah children live in poverty, according to the latest KID COUNTS report released Thursday. For the first time, the annual report also explores the issue of intergenerational poverty.

Family, friends and business associates turned out Saturday to honor Earl Holding, the Depression-era self-made billionaire who grew up in an apartment in Salt Lake City and crafted his own business empire. Holding died April 19 at the age of 86.

Some future police officers in Utah have to pay their own way through the academy in order to become police certified. A benefit was held Saturday to help raise money for those future officers, and to remember one officer recently killed in the line of duty.

More than 1,000 motorcyclists gathered Saturday morning to ride for a good cause. It was the third annual Ride to Light Up Eureka, a fundraising drive to purchase some new street lights for the small Juab County town.

About 100 youth soccer players were forced off the field at West Bountiful Elementary School Saturday morning when they showed up for their first games of the season. The odd thing is, nobody is really sure why.